"I drove away leaving her watching me with a puzzled look on her face. I knew that before the day was over that most of the neighbors would hear that ...oan had been screwing around on me and I'd left her. Alice was the neighborhood gossip.After unloading the truck at my apartment I turned it in and picked up my car. Returning to the apartment I stowed everything away, showered and changed my clothes. After lunch I went down to our bank and took half the money in our household account and. ' She drew what I thought was a rather dramatic line across my lashline extending past the outer corner with a little up turn at the end. Whenthat dried she took a small little brush with foam on the end and smudgedthe eyeliner a little.....making it larger at the outer corner. She did thesame with the other eye and then added two coats of mascara to my upperlashes and one to my lower lashes. She stepped back and allowed me to seemyself in the mirror. My eyes seemed so much larger and it made. "Just don't forget, I'm taken," she said."I know." He sighed. "All of the good ones are." They stepped inside."Come on," said Amanda, nearly dragging Lana into the living room. "Tracy, Lourdes and Brandon are here. You haven't seen them in ages. Tom," she said over her shoulder, "you come, too. You need to meet Lourdes." Why?" he asked warily, depositing the gift bag on the table as he followed."You just do." She brought them over to the couch, made introductions, and went back to her. But these thugs hung in each others arms. Two of them were kissing. ‘Fuck Ceese,’ Carl murmured, studying the back of the case. He hoped it might reveal something to prove Cesar’s innocence. ‘This some gay shit …’ Carl was shaking by the time he shoved the case back where he found it. He had pried deep enough and found out something about Cesar he wished he hadn’t. Maybe it was a mistake somehow, but he knew there was no way he was ever going to confront Cesar about it. It put those lingering.